Pori Upma

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I learnt this recipe from one of friend Nandhini during my college days.She is from Srilanka and used to visit our place during semester holidays and she used to cook a lot of specialty dishes from Srilanka.This upma is one among them.As soon as we both reach our home on friday night, she used to make this in a jiffy.I have not made these myself so far.Nearly after a decade I suddenly remembered this upma.The way she prepared this was still fresh in my memory and I immediately prepared this for evening snack!

Ingredients

Pori	3 cups
Onion chopped	1 small sized
Tomato	1 medium sized
Green chillies	2
Turmeric powder	a pinch
Chilli powder	1/4 tsp(optional)
Coriander powder	1/4 tsp(optional)
Oil	2 tsp
Mustard seeds	1/2 tsp
Urad dhal	1/2 tsp
Curry leaves	a sprig
Salt	to taste
Lemon juice	1/2 tsp
Chopped Coriander leaves	2 tablespoons

Procedure:
Step1:
Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds. Once it starts spluttering add urad dhal and curry leaves.

Step2:
Add the onions and green chillies and fry until translucent


Step3:
Add the chopped tomatoes and cook well. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder and let it cook

Step4:
Wash the puffed rice under running water. Do not soak. Otherwise it will become soggy.Squeeze the excess water and add it to the cooked onions and tomatoes.


Step5:
Mix well and allow to cook not more than 2 minutes

Step6:
Switch off the flame and add lemon juice and garnish with chopped coriander leaves